Latest Comments

Related Content

About Independent Lens

Encompassing the full spectrum of film — from history to drama to animation to shorts to social-issue films — this anthology series allows audiences greater access to powerful and innovative programs united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of their independent producers. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal hosts.

Independent Lens

Congolese refugee Rose Mapendo, who settled in Phoenix in 2000 with nine of her 10 children and has since become an advocate for refugees, reunites with the child she left behind, Nangabire, after 13 years apart.

HISTORY AND MUSIC

Murry Sidlin conducts Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem to honor Jews who performed it at the Czech concentration camp, Terezin, in 1943 and '44.

What do Blazing Saddles, Casablanca, and West Side Story have in common? They're all part of the The National Film Registry. Learn more about how film contributes to our culture in this roll call of 550 American cinema treasures.